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If a guy like this were to get a legitimate psychiatric diagnosis, what do you suppose it'd be? Not that I feel bad for the guy, mind you, rather I feel it'd be

If a guy like this were to get a legitimate psychiatric diagnosis, what do you suppose it'd be? Not that I feel bad for the guy, mind you, rather I feel it'd be helpful to the community of people who have been affected by this kind of behavior to have an accurate name for it other than just saying the guy is a douchebag. I knew a guy in college who had some aspects of this guy's behavior and was diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder (tragically, he fully embraced his condition), but I only have an armchair knowledge of psychiatry and I'd be interested to hear what somebody with experience has to say about it.

tehrei 10y ago
It isn't really a disorder, it's just a kind of personality. It's pretty much par for the course of simply being human. A good shrink should be able to get him to function with people who don't see things as the does, but there isn't anything wrong with him per se.
salmon30salmon 10y ago
It is generally considered inappropriate for a mental health practitioner to offer a diagnosis without formally seeing the patient in question, so I doubt that someone who has the knowledge to make an assessment would take the leap and breach protocol. It would surely be interesting though.
dpark 10y ago
There's a whole spectrum of personality disorders, including narcissistic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder (aka sociopathy). Any of these and maybe others could be diagnosed. Or maybe none and this guy (based on the alleged behaviors) is just a terrible person with no diagnosable disorder.
musha68k 10y ago
I can recommend Pieter Hintjens' "Psychopath Code" if you want to learn more on how human/social predators operate: http://hintjens.com/blog:_psychopaths http://hintjens.com/blog:_psychopaths Edit: I neither know the accused nor the writer of that piece, I just wanted to share that there's lots of layers to reality and that this book was eye-opening to me in that regard.
jrowley 10y ago
It's funny that we look for a diagnosis when something terrible happens. Why do we do it? I guess so we can work to help people that suffer from said diseases, but there are also plenty of people that do horrible things that don't fall into certain categories/diagnoses.
llamataboot 10y ago
"Complex interplay between own personality and patriarchy/misogyny"
dloose 10y ago
> I only have an armchair knowledge of psychiatry and I'd be interested to hear what somebody with experience has to say about it Hopefully anybody with experience will know better than to diagnose someone over the Internet based largely on hearsay.

tehrei 10y ago

It isn't really a disorder, it's just a kind of personality. It's pretty much par for the course of simply being human. A good shrink should be able to get him to function with people who don't see things as the does, but there isn't anything wrong with him per se.

salmon30salmon 10y ago

It is generally considered inappropriate for a mental health practitioner to offer a diagnosis without formally seeing the patient in question, so I doubt that someone who has the knowledge to make an assessment would take the leap and breach protocol. It would surely be interesting though.

dpark 10y ago

There's a whole spectrum of personality disorders, including narcissistic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder (aka sociopathy). Any of these and maybe others could be diagnosed. Or maybe none and this guy (based on the alleged behaviors) is just a terrible person with no diagnosable disorder.

musha68k 10y ago

I can recommend Pieter Hintjens' "Psychopath Code" if you want to learn more on how human/social predators operate: http://hintjens.com/blog:_psychopaths http://hintjens.com/blog:_psychopaths Edit: I neither know the accused nor the writer of that piece, I just wanted to share that there's lots of layers to reality and that this book was eye-opening to me in that regard.

jrowley 10y ago

It's funny that we look for a diagnosis when something terrible happens. Why do we do it? I guess so we can work to help people that suffer from said diseases, but there are also plenty of people that do horrible things that don't fall into certain categories/diagnoses.

llamataboot 10y ago

"Complex interplay between own personality and patriarchy/misogyny"

dloose 10y ago

> I only have an armchair knowledge of psychiatry and I'd be interested to hear what somebody with experience has to say about it Hopefully anybody with experience will know better than to diagnose someone over the Internet based largely on hearsay.